Looks like you've not defined a Hotkey when asked in EmulationStation input mapping - that's why B resets the current game. What version of RetroPie are you using ? Can you add more info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first ?

@IanDaemon I just changed the line in my cmdline.txt, but I don't really notice anything different.

Here'a one-liner that will provide the event device from an joystick input device (here for /dev/input/js0): readlink -f /dev/input/by-path/`udevadm info /dev/input/js0 | grep ID_PATH= | awk -F= ' { print $2 }'`-event-joystick You can also check with cat /proc/bus/input/devices to see which event device is associated with a /dev/input/jsX device.

@chubsta see if you can get hold of the PlayStation Mini console. Two USB PS1 controllers are included (but sadly not the analog ones)

@RpiBeginner just wanted to point out that your screenshot is 'aplay -l', and the instructions say 'aplay -L'. You need the capital L option to get the right output. That will allow you the correct name of the audio card. Each audio card has one or more audio mixers (audio devices) on the audio card. Emulationstation needs to know which audio mixer to use on the audio card when you do the volume up and down. To find that out you need to use 'amixer scontrols -D <AudioCard>', where <AudioCard> is replaced by the name of your audio card you got in the previous step. I know from your screenshot that your audio card is set to the 'default', so you should run 'amixer scontrols -D default'. That command should show you the correct name of the audio mixer on your 'default' audio card. It will most likely be called 'Digital' or something like that. Please note that you must copy the name exactly as it is printed. Those two commands above will give you the settings you need. The first command gives you the name of the audio card you select in emulationstation, which is 'default' (based on your screenshot). The second is the name of the audio mixer (audio device) on that audio card, which you'll need to run yourself to get. That would be all you need to get around for most things... Except video sounds. RPI uses OMX player to play the sounds from video files, and they need a third setting! This setting looks different again from the ones we got earlier. The format is: 'hdmi:hw:0,0' That setting will use the first mixer on the first audio card for video sounds. If that setting doesn't work then you should try 'hdmi:hw:0,1', which will use the second mixer on the first audio card. Hopefully that will give you all the information you need right there. Remember that if you cannot select the setting directly from within emulationstation you can add the setting directly to the es_settings.cfg itself . Please see the instructions page I linked to earlier for more details if you need to do that. Hope this all helps! Good luck. Tminit

Welcome to this forum. Please provide all the information that is asked for in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first in addition to the vendor and model of the wireless keyboard.

@RpiBeginner Thank you. English isn't my native language and I wasn't sure if you meant "[A while ago] I tested it with my pc [and there was no hiss], and [now on the Raspberry Pi] the hiss is still there". :) So it may very well be that the usb card is faulty or just not very good.

@nielogiczny Makes sense! I had to do that with the 8-bitdo SNES Bluetooth controller. The setup script had it as an option. Before that, only one or 2 of the key presses would do anything, and it registered as a keyboard when it did. Glad you got it working!

@KN4THX you really can't beat them for the price.

maybe you can try this: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/21573/ledspicer-new-led-animation-controller-for-linux

@Parabolaralus Yeah I'll either figure it out or install linux (what is a good distro for dell laptops?). This pc I found at a garbage dump, the hard drive was failing, the battery shot, and it was a little beaten up from being discarded. I restored it with a ssd, and a new battery. I think it came with windows 7, but there was no sticker on the back. I downloaded the USB Windows 10 upgrade from microsoft, these were free upgrades some time ago. I had assumed Education postulating that it would activate for free, but I have no qualifications for those terms. Back on topic: ExFat has been working great with allocation unit size 8192b. NTFS-3g may have been a problem in particular with dosbox because of the write syncs.

Thanks @mitu, that'll get me started :D

@swimdad84 it looks like it. You can also plug your phone into that dongle too to test it I suppose or just plug the pi into it.

So I finally figured it out. As usual it was a couple things, but none of them were as difficult as I was looking for. Everything was a little out of date, and because I was working on wifi, i figured id let it update everything over night. Turns out I hadnt done that since enabling usbrom service. After the update it (mostly) solved my problem, and after putting the pi on stretch instead of Jessie I'm good. Thanks @Efriim for going down the rabbit hole with me. I appreciated your help

Hi Raspburger, I have been trying the same Piranha controller with both my PC and Ubuntu and a Raspberry Pi 3B with a full Raspbian and had exactly the same problem as you describe. I have seen in this topic that you mentioned a hotkey that could switch the controller between PS3 and XBOX modes and after a few minutes trying I found that holding "Analog" button for 5-10 seconds actually forced the controller to initialize as PS3, and it works out of the box now on both my Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi/Raspbian. Hope this helps.

@EpicWings You need to resize the 5Gb partition to take the rest of the 64 Gb of your USB disc. Use a live CD with System Rescue CD on your PC, boot it up, then insert your USB stick and resize the 2nd partition using GParted.